Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?

Mining in Africa

Are Local Communities Better Off?

Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L. Dabalen, and Bryan Christopher Land

in collaboration with Michael Lewin, Aly Sanoh, Gregory Smith, and Anja Tolonen

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Foreword

Africa has experienced a boom in extractive commodities since about 2000. The substantial growth in exports of the region’s abundant natural resources—ranging from hydrocarbons such as oil and natural gas to minerals such as gold, copper, and iron ore—significantly contributed to the remarkable turnaround in its economic growth trajectory. And Africa’s resource-abundant countries have grown faster than other countries in